Public Speech: ‘What’s the ‘good’ in the good fight? Questions for ethical thinking in strange times’

Posted on: January 25, 2016

By: Gregory Phillips

As globalisation and technology draw the world closer together, they’ve also revealed chasms in how we relate to each other as nations, cultures and individuals – and how we resolve conflicts. What happens when good intentions are incompatible?

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